Review of Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005) by Mark A — 19 Mar 2009
A powerful drama, based on true events, of a young woman accused of fomenting dissent in Nazi Germany during the war. It is easy to draw parallels between then and now, but the lesson has to be that only those who know in their hearts that they are wrong need fear the truth.
Sophie Scholl (Julia Jentsch) is the young woman who confronts her interrogator with the morality that underpins and supercedes the law. Her defense consists not in denying her actions, but in the moral justification for those actions.
The verdict and sentence are not in doubt, but the cruelty with which the trial is conducted and the swiftness with which the sentence is carried out reveal a regime that knows its days are numbered and that it has gambled and lost.
This viewer found it quite interesting that there was a student resistance movement that existed in the belly of the beast that was Nazi Germany. Sophie's legacy is to inspire all who love freedom and abhor injustice to stand up in the face of tyranny, no matter the consequence.
This review of Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005) was written by Mark A on 19 Mar 2009.
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days has generally received very positive reviews.
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